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Liya Kebede
Birth at
1 March 1978
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Leah Kebede was born on January 3, 1978 in Ethiopia. She started her modeling career while still at school. She successfully performed the duties of a model. While studying at the French Lycee Guebre Mariam, Leah meets a model agent from France. She moved to France at the age of 18 at the invitation of the Paris modeling agency. Her career developed rapidly thanks to Tom Ford, who at that time was the creative director of Gucci. The fashion house signed a contract with the model to show the autumn-winter
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Leah Kebede was born on January 3, 1978 in Ethiopia. She started her modeling career while still at school. She successfully performed the duties of a model. While studying at the French Lycee Guebre Mariam, Leah meets a model agent from France. She moved to France at the age of 18 at the invitation of the Paris modeling agency. Her career developed rapidly thanks to Tom Ford, who at that time was the creative director of Gucci. The fashion house signed a contract with the model to show the autumn-winter collection of 2000.
In the movie Leah first starred in 2005. She played a supporting role in the film The Armoury Baron. In 2006, another film with Leah was released – “False Temptation”. In the film, she starred with Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.
In 2007, Kebede moved to the United States. In July, she took 11th place in the ranking of the 15 highest-paid models in the world.
In 2008, the model released her own collection of children’s clothing under the brand Lemlem, which in Ethiopian means “blooming”. The brand was created specifically to support Ethiopian weavers who have difficult working conditions and low sales of manufactured products. Lemlem clothing has a modern cut and is decorated with national embroidery.
In 2009, Kebede starred in the autobiographical novel by former supermodel Waris Deary.
"Desert Flower" . Between 2010 and 2011, she starred in In the Woods.
"Black Gold" in 2012
"The jungle is called" .
The supermodel has lived in New York since 2007. It was there that she met an Ethiopian financier named Cassie Kebede, who later became her husband. In 2001, Leah gave birth to a son Suhula, and in 2005 - a daughter Rae. In the world fashion model came, already having one child.